24PearlStreet Workshops and Events
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In The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux argue that images should “produce a bit of magic, a reality so real it is ‘like being alive twice.’” As poets, after mining our respective memories, how do we deepen a reader’s experience with the poem via the image? How does one draft a lasting image? This workshop will explore the image, its implications, as more than mere scenery. To do this, participants will review poems with images that reverberate and re-imagine their own poems with images that idle.
Biography
Nicole Sealey
is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, an excerpt of which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, Ordinary Beast, finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her honors include a 2023-2024 Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review.
